Research Technology Resources

Supported Technologies
We rely extensively upon open standards products for interoperability, stability, and flexibility. Because we are committed to supporting a wide range of areas of academic endeavor, we avoid the constraints of proprietary solutions whenever feasible...

Web Technologies
We recognize that the web is an increasingly important communication medium for the departments and research centers at CGIS. HUIT currently offers a variety of web-based services that include websites, mailing lists, and event management systems. Each of...

Confidential Data
It is your responsibility to follow Harvard's policies on data security while working with our systems. Be aware that data that contains information about students or is related to Harvard's business and operations can be classified as confidential and...

Web Privacy Statement
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site (HMDC Support). Information Gathering Our web server software generates logfiles of the IP addresses of computers that access this web site and of what files...

Remote Administration
For physical servers that we host, we offer administrative access without the need for physical contact through remote graphical consoles, serial consoles, and power management tools. Using the remote administration service in combination with our...

Server Hosting
For basic research our RCE accounts include access to resources suitable for most purposes. If you have recurring or continual needs for greater resources than are available through our standard service offerings, we might be able to pursue another...

Research Cluster Hosting
We provide acces to our existing Cluster Computing infrastructure with an RCE account. If you have recurring or continual needs for greater resources than are available through our standard service offerings, we might be able to work with you to purchase...

Monitoring
We check the status of our services continuously. If a problem is detected at any time, we are notified immediately. If you experience a problem with any of our services, please check http://mon.hmdc.harvard.edu before contacting support. If your problem...

KVM Access to Servers
Remotely via a web browser -- This is only working with older version of the Java JRE (<=1.6.0.10 on Windows and <=1.6.0.7 on Linux) as of 2009-05-14. Open a web browser and navigate to https://dsview.hmdc.harvard.edu/ . Log in using your LDAP username...

Research Computing Support
IQSS collaborates with FASRC to provide researchers with access to resources on the Cannon (data security level 2) and FASSE (data security level 3) compute clusters. To request an account and access to resources, please follow instructions here: https:/...

RCE Accounts
When you request an RCE account, username will be the University NetID. RCE account passwords must conform to the following restrictions: At least eight characters in length Not based on any common dictionary word No spaces Contains at least two numbers...

RCE Account Renewal
As required by Harvard security policy, all RCE accounts have a renewal date. Renewal dates are selected based on the estimated end times of users' projects. As a general rule accounts are up for renewal at least once every year. When you see an account...

RCE Account and Affiliate Definition
Research Computing Environment (RCE) accounts - Provides access to the following resources: RCE desktop HMDC-managed login and computer servers GitHub We are happy to provide accounts to qualified requesters; however, for purposes of accounting and...

RCE Documentation
Extensive documentation is available on the Research Computing Environment (RCE) site.